Both Miss Philippines and Miss Colombia as Miss Universe By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. “THERE’S always a first time,” as the saying goes, and this was what happened in the 2015 Miss Universe Beauty Pageant last Monday. After 64 years of seamless organization, an unanticipated blunder happened. We saw how…
I’m in love with Noel By Johanne Macob PEOPLE who personally know me, including my friends on Facebook, may think this article is about ‘Noel’ my significant other. It’s actually about ‘Noel,’ a significant holiday I am truly in love with – Christmas! I am in love with Christmas…
Young Roots
SP EMPLOYEES IN HOT WATER. Those involved in the questionable overtime pay issue in Dagupan may be in trouble. We read an item in the PDI that the Office of the Ombudsman has approved the indictment for graft of Leonardo Leria, vice mayor of Mac Arthur, Leyte and three other employees of…
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CHRISTMAS MESSAGE THE drug lords, corrupt local officials and recidivists in Pangasinan were among those especially targeted by the special Christmas message of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, PDP-Laban’s standard bearer in 2016 elections. “Huling Christmas na ito ng mga kurakot at kriminal. Sa susunod na taon, magpapasko silang lahat…
Duterte warns drug lords, corrupt officials
VM LIM REJECTS SPECIAL SESSION IF the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) again fails to approve the city’ 2016 budget when it meets on the first week of January 2016, the city government will have no choice but to operate on a reenacted budget. A last ditch effort of Mayor Belen…
SP threatens reenacted budget for city
FIRECRACKER LANE—Children rush to a view the array of firecrackers on display in one of the stands along the firecracker lane on a sidewalk of Burgos Street in Dagupan in front of the West Central School, safely away from the market and the central business district. The firecracker lane was set…
FIRECRACKER LANE
THE Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) and the Pangasinan Provincial Office (PPH), including its latter’s satellite hospitals, are ready to receive and treat persons who suffer burns or lose fingers from firecracker explosions during the New Year revelry. This was assured by R1MC and PPH officials even as firecracker zones are…
R1MC, PPH ready for firecracker victims
BRIGHT AND HOLY CHRISTMAS — The St. John the Evangelist Metropolitan Cathedral, the seat of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese illuminates cathedral grounds during the Christmas eve mass on Dec. 24, 2015 (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
BRIGHT AND HOLY CHRISTMAS
A DNA test has confirmed that blue mussels along the Brazilian and Columbian coasts of South America, that traversed the Panama Canal to become established in the tropical Eastern Pacific, have reached Dagupan’s coastal waters. Dr. Michael Rice, a professor of the Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences at…
Dagupan’s blue mussel seen to save shellfish industry
LINGAYEN – In what was his last Christmas party with the provincial government’s employees last week at the Capitol Plaza before he bows out of office in 2016, Gov. Amado T. Espino was profuse in thanking them for their support. “It’s been an honor and pleasure serving our provincial government and…